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Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth. ↗

— Franz Boas

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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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